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Mobilization critical as close race to be won ‘on the ground’ David P. Ball

Metro | Vancouver “This election is going to be close,” B.C. Liberal campaign director Laura Miller warned her party’s supporters in an email. “No pressure or anything.”

As the election enters its final day, parties are in an 11thhour push to get their supporters to vote.

The B.C. NDP, too, are focusing on getting their people to turn out, and their website prominently promotes “Make a Vote Plan” — collecting pledges and postal codes to encourage them to follow through.

Having voters visualize how they’ll actually get to the booth is based on the latest research, explained Kai Nagata with the Dogwood Initiative, a registered third-party advertiser this election.

The organization printed fliers of U.S. President Donald Trump with, “Bad things happen when people don’t vote.”

Telling people who to vote for, or not, is less helpful than reducing everyone’s mental barriers to voting.

“We’ve got hundreds of volunteers making phone calls to help people make a voting plan,” he said. “That exercise

Handbills by B.C. advocacy group Dogwood Initiative — a registered third-party advertiser in Tuesday’s B.C. election — have been distributed across the province hoping to boost voter turnout. courtesy Dogwood Initiative

— of thinking about, ‘Am I going to take the bus, am I going to drive or walk? Do I know where my polling station is?

Do I have my ID?’ — has been shown to increase voter turnout by up to 10 points.”

This year, Election’s B.C.’s website offers the new mapbased feature, but also easily findable links to candidates’ profiles, how to vote, and even a feature where voters can add

We’ve got hundreds of volunteers making phone calls to help people make a voting plan.

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a tag to their social media profile picture saying, “I vote, do you?” And the agency printed large wall posters for polling stations inviting selfies using the hashtag, “#IVoteBC.” Each party of course has its own election-day “Get Out the Vote” efforts, aimed at the supporters they’ve identified through a month of doorknocking and phoning.

“We need thousands of vol-

unteers out on Election Day,” the NDP advised.

If there’s one idea that the parties might agree on, it’s that the main thing supporters can do is spread the word (once they’ve cast their ballot, of course) through social media.

“Turn at least five friends, family members, or colleagues out to vote,” Miller said. “Tuesday will be won — or lost — on the ground.”

NY Times suing B.C. society In investigative journalism, when the going gets tough, the tough go to B.C. Supreme Court?

That’s the case with The New York Times, which is suing an agency B.C. created to attract businesses from outside the province, Metro has learned.

AdvantageBC, a non-profit society headed by former B.C. Liberal finance minister Colin Hansen, is under scrutiny for what the Times estimated are at least $140 million in tax refunds doled out since 2008 by the province to members, some of which remain secret.

According to documents filed in B.C. Supreme Court, the newspaper called AdvantageBC a “secretive tax-incentive program.”

The Times’ lawyer, Vancouverbased Neil Chantler, wants a judge to order the society to hand over “financial statements” and “any auditor’s report on those statements for the last complete fiscal year of the Society,” and salaries of directors and contractors.

According to the filing, Hansen initially declined the Times’ request “on the basis that AdvantageBC was allegedly a ‘memberfunded’ society.”

But Chantler disagreed, citing a March 31 B.C. Registrar of Societies ruling declaring “it had failed to comply with the Societies Act by failing to provide the records,” the lawsuit alleged.

Last week, Hansen told Metro AdvantageBC was transparent with its info but financial details of its members’ tax refunds were protected by privacy laws.

At the time of publication, the organization had not filed a statement of defence. david p. ball/metro

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Don’t touch me — In the middle of a testy interaction during the first leaders’ debate on April 21, B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark put her hand on B.C. NDP Leader John Horgan’s arm and said, “Calm down, John.” He snapped back, “Don’t touch me.”

The Liberals ran with the interaction, painting Horgan as an angry man who doesn’t have the temperament to govern.

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Trump’s softwood stance — On April 24, U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his anti-free-trade rhetoric, announcing tariffs of up to 20 per cent on Canadian lumber. The trade action became a B.C. campaign issue, with Clark highlighting her government’s track record in resolving a previous dispute.

Metro | Vancouver It’s been arguably the most vicious election campaign in British Columbia’s recent memory. Over the past month, B.C. Liberals, New Democrats and Greens have duked it out with attack ads, personal jabs and testy debates.

The campaign hasn’t been without substance: It’s also brought some big issues to the fore, such as jobs, affordability, the environment and the role of “big money” in politics.

Tu e s d a y i s e l e c t i o n day across B.C., and voting is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

If the latest opinion polls are any indication, the race has ended with John Horgan’s B.C. NDP neck-and-neck with Christy Clark’s B.C. Liberals.

“The race has been very close,” said Forum Research president Lorne Bozinoff in a phone interview.

“Over the last week, the two parties have been see-sawing back and forth. But when you take the margin of error into consideration, we’ve seen the parties essentially tied.... The polls have tightened up to nearly dead even.”

In 2013, pollsters didn’t foresee the frontrunner B.C. NDP being trounced by the

Donor vs. donor — The B.C. Liberals, who have faced damaging allegations of political donation irregularities and calls to reform B.C.’s lax regulations, attempt to turn the tables on the NDP by calling attention to the largest single donation in B.C. history: $672,576 from the Steelworkers union. Nevertheless, the Liberals took in twice as much in donations ($13.1 million) than the NDP ($6.2 million) in 2016.

Green surge — Following the only televised leaders’ debate of the campaign, Green Leader Andrew Weaver surged in the polls, reaching a historic high of 24 per cent support.

Charlene Phung votes with nine-month-old Matteo Phung-Jones at the advance poll at Creekside Community Centre on May 4. Jennifer Gauthier/Metro

B.C. Liberals. Forum Research came closest of the various polls then, but it led to much hand-wringing about whether to trust pollsters at all.

“It’s a mugs game to try to figure out which one poll is more accurate than another,” Bozinoff mused. “We’ll of course know after the election, but not before.

“I wouldn’t worry about any one particular poll. I’d take them all together and average them for a better indication.”

One reason pollsters were so wrong last time, he said, was because of a last-minute shift in the electorate away from the NDP. “Some polls may have stopped too early to catch

the change. That was one of the lessons from the previous election and the accuracy of the polls then,” he said.

“Something can happen in the last day or two, and we want to get that reaction.

You want to make sure no intervening events happen between your survey and election day.”

New York Times effect — Back in January, the New York Times took a look at just how lenient political donation rules are in B.C. In contrast to most other jurisdictions, corporations, unions and foreign entities can donate any amount. With just days to go before the election, the high-profile publication took aim at a little-known and “opaque” tax break for foreign businesses that was expanded under the BC Liberals’ watch.

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More than 1,500 soldiers hit the ground Monday to help Quebecers deal with “historic” flooding.

Flood waters in Gatineau, Que., were rising relentlessly and the military was stepping up sandbagging operations in the community.

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Metro | Vancouver Officials continue to keep an eye on a dangerous flooding situation in southcentral B.C. “For the moment we’ve seen a bit of a reprieve with weather conditions,” said David Campbell, director of B.C.’s River Forecast Centre.

“We’re looking out to later in the week where we might see another round of some more thundershower weather into Thursday that could cause problems.”

This weekend several communities in the Thompson Nicola and Okanagan were put under evacuation orders or advisories. The floods are presumed to have claimed two lives: Cache Creek’s fire chief,

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Clayton Cassidy, went missing after checking on the water level of the village, while a 76-year-old man who lived in Tappen, B.C., is presumed dead after a mudslide swept over his home.

Both searches have now been changed to recovery efforts.

In the Thompson Nicola Regional District, evacuation orders are still in effect for several properties at Cherry Creek near Kamloops. Evacuation alerts are

in effect for more properties near Mill Creek and Guichon Creek, said information officer Debbie Sells.

It’s a similar situation for the Central Okanagan Regional District, where conditions have stabilized but creek levels remain high, said Jason Luciw, information officer with the district. An evacuation order remains in effect for Okanagan Indian Band No. 7.

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combined to create a perfect storm for a very high spring run-off season, which normally reaches its peak from May to mid-June, said Campbell.

April was both colder and wetter than normal, while after a very snowy winter, snowpacks across the Thompson, Okanagan and Kootenays are between 68 and 114 per cent above normal.

A blast of warmer temperatures last week, followed by heavy rain, set the stage for mountain creeks to swell with run-off. In some cases, watersaturated ground on B.C.’s steep slopes has also triggered landslides or debris flows.

A challenge to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban appears to hinge on whether a federal appeals court agrees that the Republican’s past anti-Muslim statements can be used against him.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrestled Monday with whether the court should look beyond the text of the executive order to comments made by Trump and his aides on the campaign trail and after his election in

France’s newly elected president has started taking on his new role, working on the attitude expected of a statesman — a new world for a man with little political experience.

Moments after his victory on Sunday, Emmanuel Macron, 39, slowly walked to the stage in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum in Paris, progressively

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National digest Criminal ‘kosher’ cheese charges a first For the first time in Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has laid criminal charges against a businessman and his company for allegedly trying to pass off run-of-themill food as kosher.

The agency charged Creation Foods with sending cheese described as “kosher” to Jewish summer camps in 2015. The agency alleges forged documents were created to make it seem like the cheese adhered to Jewish dietary laws.

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Sajjan still in hot seat The Senate defence committee released a report Monday blasting the Trudeau government’s “political decision” to purchase Super Hornet fighter jets, while all but endorsing the F-35 stealth fighter.

The report came as the Conservatives used one of their opposition days in the House of Commons to focus speeches on Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan’s credibility, a debate which will culminate in a largely symbolic vote on Tuesday. Sajjan has faced days of verbal fire for exaggerating his role in a key battle involving the Canadian Forces. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Miami teamed up with IBM to crunch real-time data in the hopes of spotting bottlenecks and other issues. The system tackled nearly 20,000 bus runs on four major routes, looking at bus paths, speed and stops to assess the accuracy of schedules and bunching alerts.

Toronto’s transit agency deployed some of its spare fleet to relieve pressure on two of its busiest routes, the 29 Dufferin and 512 St. Clair.

In addition, the schedule was tweaked to reflect the true time of the cross-town trips, and it hired supervisors to expedite departures from the terminal.

Researchers at Georgia Tech told bus drivers to abandon their schedules and just drive with the flow of traffic. In the experiment, buses got back on track by waiting at selected stops or “control points” based on calculations made once the bus arrived there.

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Outcome: The system predicted bunches up to 60 minutes ahead of the problem, so buses could be redirected accordingly.

Outcome: Short-turns on the Dufferin bus went from 300 per week to 30 or 40.

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life@metronews.ca When her two-year relationship abruptly ended a year ago, Leslie Taylor kept replaying the way things went down in her head. Despite having friends to chat with, she often felt no one understood her pain.

The California-based 33-yearold felt like she’d lost herself in the relationship, which made her feel even more alone.

Depressed and desperate, Taylor was willing to try anything.

She hunted online for a getaway to help break the lonely cycle, but found nothing to help her heartbreak.

“I was surprised,” says Taylor, who asked her real name not be used out of privacy concerns. “People are breaking up every day — you’d think there’d be a giant market for breakup retreats.”

Then she came across Renew,

a new two-day bootcamp in upstate New York dedicated to mending broken hearts. Founded by Vancouver native Amy Chan, Renew’s first retreat was planned for February 2017. Taylor packed her bags and booked her tickets.

“I was willing to try anything,” Taylor says. “The camp was really geared at self-reflection and healing. And it was nice to talk about (my breakup) with people focused on helping me.”

Chan conceived of Renew in late 2015 after a sudden breakup five years ago, which left her feeling lost, depressed and even suicidal at times. “I tried everything from psychics to therapy to yoga. I spent $2,000 on a yoga retreat in Mexico, but it still wasn’t enough,” she says. “You name it, I did it. But there was nothing dedicated to healing from a breakup.”

It took Chan two years and a move from Vancouver to New York City to recover from her failed relationship. Now based in N.Y.C., Chan, a marketing professional, saw an opportunity in this underserved niche and launched Renew as a sidebusiness.

She plans to run retreats four times a year increasing the frequency as popularity grows.

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Hosted at a luxury farm in upstate New York, the techfree, $1,600 retreat includes nature hikes, meditation, yoga, gourmet meals and one-on-one therapy sessions with a trained psychologist. But the bigger draw might be the group sessions with trained therapists, where participants talk through their failed relationships, analyzing what went wrong, and how to avoid issues in the future.

Renew is now one of a handful of programs that focuses on healing after a split. Others include The Shortcut to Getting Over a Breakup, a four-day Toronto workshop that is spread over the course of a month and costs $200.

The group nature of these retreats is probably the most beneficial aspect of the healing process, says Susan Valentine, a Toronto-based psychotherapist who specializes in relationships.

But she cautions that group retreats, while a useful tool, can mask some underlying issues.

First, of course, after the getaway there’s a new sense of isolation. Second, people can go into these experiences thinking they’ll be healed in two days, when in reality, there is no quick fix to recovering from a split.

“The most helpful thing — beyond getting away — was hearing other people’s stories,” says Taylor. “There was something about meeting a stranger who has dealt with (the same thing I had) that was incredibly comforting.” TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

HOW TO MEND Some helpful ways to mend a broken heart from the bootcamps’ founders.

The science Did you know that when scanned in an MRI, a heartbroken brain looks the same as that of a cocaine addict looking for a fix? It’s important to understand what’s happening in the brain when you break up because it’ll help you be less hard on yourself, says Joana Lopez, a life coach and founder of The Shortcut to Getting Over a Breakup.

Nix the creeping Stop browsing your expartner’s Instagram, says Renew’s Amy Chan. “It’s not loving to yourself when you’re stalking your ex,” she says. “You know the outcome of it is you’re going to feel bad. But you do it anyways because you’re addicted.” Find a new habit, like taking a walk or reading a book.

Get active Find a workout buddy, says psychotherapist Susan Valentine. Beyond releasing endorphins, working out is a good way of breaking out of the wallowing pattern people tend to fall into when getting over love.

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“No matter the activity, the demand for Elder time is incredible,” says Harkey. “Just to have Elders present for storytelling or facilitating lessons of roles and responsibilities of Indigenous people makes a huge impact on our students.”

Another popular student service, says Har-

key, is the Wellness Warriors — NEC’s sports programs and activities. Students can participate in numerous wellness events throughout the year, including Vancouver’s Annual Sun Run and the Dragon Boat Festival, as well as activities such as yoga, soccer, swimming and basketball.

It is the latter that will be in the spotlight when NEC teams up with Simon Fraser University (SFU) to host the Native Basketball Tournament — with 32 teams from across Canada competing in various brackets such as co-ed and the master’s division — on the weekend of May 20 at SFU’s Burnaby Campus.

“The tournament is important for many reasons but it is especially about the youth and identifying and building bridges for youth who are great athletes but may not see themselves as academic beings,” says Harkey. “That’s why at the tournament we’ll offer a free youth basketball clinic.

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Vancouver Community College’s ESL pathways program offers an innovative way to learn the English skills to work, study and participate in everyday life in Canada.

Now, its inventive approach has been recognized on a national scale as Colleges and Institutes Canada selected the program as its 2016-17 gold recipient of the CICan Program Excellence Award.

“It acknowledges a lot of hard work and what we find so gratifying is that the creation of the curriculum involved eight B.C. institutions,” says Tanis Sawkins, associate director of VCC’s partnership development office, of the award that recognizes an innovative, portable, sustainable and effective program. “We started implementing it two years ago and there are many things that make it unique.”

Created with provincial government funding and in collaboration with schools such as Douglas College and Thompson Rivers University, the program, Sawkins says, is offered at various levels that take about 12 weeks each to complete and would be considered intermediate.

Program placement is based on the results of the Canadian Language Benchmarks test or the results learners achieved in the language instruction for newcomers

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“LINC is for permanent residents or Convention Refugees, so if someone becomes a Canadian citizen, they are not eligible for it,” explains Sawkins. “That sometimes creates a gap, which our program is filling. But we also recognize that previous learning.”

VCC’s offering employs interactive elements as well as a “flipped classroom” model that has students view videos or other materials online in their own time to allow for more intense discussions during class time that include topics such as diversity, Truth and Reconciliation and inclusion.

“We are really looking at issues new Canadians will encounter in daily life in Canada while focusing on listening, speaking, reading and writing skills,” says Sawkins.

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ATC boasts four locations across Canada and offers a variety of programs, including its mainstay foundational automotive service technician and refinishing prep and auto body technician programs.

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IN BRIEF Lowry confirms he’ll opt out Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry will opt out of the final year of his contract and become a free agent, and a lucrative deal beckons. But less than 24 hours after the Raptors’ season ended in a fourgame sweep by Cleveland, Lowry gave no hints about his intentions.

“Honestly man, I want to just get better, I want to have fun, I want to win a ring. I want to make sure my family is happy,” said Lowry.

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Pillar added to his growing list of all-world defensive plays with an eye-popping diving catch in deep centre field on Monday night. The play likely saved a couple of runs and the Blue Jays went on to spoil Encarnacion’s return to Toronto in a 4-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians.

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Warriors sweep aside Jazz Stephen Curry scored 30 points and the Golden State Warriors completed a second-round sweep of the Utah Jazz with a 121-95 victory Monday night.

The defending Western Conference champions have won both their series in four games and await the winner of the Rockets-Spurs series that is tied at 2-2.

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Timeline for Las Vegas Raiders’ stadium released A preliminary timeline for the proposed stadium that would be home to the Raiders in Las Vegas shows construction would be finished only three months before the 2020 regular season begins.

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Bouchard, one of the most outspoken players against Sharapova’s return to tennis following a doping ban, jumped up and down after converting her second match point.

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It’s all in The Stars Your daily horoscope by Francis Drake Aries March 21 - April 20 Today you can see new ways to make money. You might even see new uses for things you own, because you’re in a resourceful frame of mind.

Taurus April 21 - May 21 Take a realistic look in the mirror to see what you can do to improve your appearance, because you can do this today. You might even see ways to improve your health.

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Cancer June 22 - July 23 You might attract someone powerful today. This person might influence you to change your future goals. Possibly, you will influence someone else.

Leo July 24 - Aug. 23 You will have a strong footing in your relationships with parents, bosses and VIPs today. Have confidence in yourself; people will listen to what you have to say.

Virgo Aug. 24 - Sept. 23 You might see a new way of looking at something, particularly when discussing religious, political or racial issues. Your point of view can grow and mature today.

Libra Sept. 24 - Oct. 23 Trust your ability to come up with a better arrangement regarding shared property, inheritances, taxes or debt. You are so resourceful today.

Scorpio Oct. 24 - Nov. 22 Look for ways to improve your closest relationships and partnerships, because this is possible today. You will see ways to make improvements.

Sagittarius Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 Don’t hesitate to make suggestions about introducing reform where you work. Likewise, today you might see a way to improve your health.

Capricorn Dec. 22 - Jan. 20 You are in a resourceful frame of mind today. You can apply this to any creative activity, especially involving the arts, music or sports, or even working with children.

Aquarius Jan. 21 - Feb. 19 Look around you and see what you can do to make improvements and repairs where you live. This is a good day to think about how to fix up your digs.

Pisces Feb. 20 - March 20 Your powers of concentration are excellent today, which is why you can solve problems and see solutions that normally might be hidden from you. with others will be powerful.

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